When you workon a traditionally-rigged sailing ship, the most fun is going aloft to furl or unfurl sails. But when I first started, everything about the foreign world of traditional ships intimidated me. Their size…massive, their height…lofty, their power…a stout wind. I hung back durin...
E-text prepared by the Distributed Proofreading Team JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VOLUME I DAWN, MORNING, YOUTH, REVOLT by Romain Rolland Translated by Gilbert Cannan PREFACE "Jean-Christophe" is the history of the development of a musician of genius. The present vol
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For instance, given the small collection size, I have to choose a pretty long window (80 years out of an overall 200-year-long collection). The window is a bit shorter than that at the beginning of the video — for purely dramatic reasons, so that we don’t reach the “climax” of...
Charles Dickens left behind a remarkably complete record of his literary output, including not just handwritten drafts for most of the major novels but also marked-up page proofs, serial publications, illustrations, theatrical adaptations and records of his own legendary performances from his... More...
We created thecover imagesof Margaret Atwood’s masterpieces for the exclusive series of 21 novels, essays, short stories and poems that the Corriere della Sera publisher in collaboration with the publisher Ponte alle Grazie has published in 2023. The volumes were on sale with theCorriere Della ...
And that applies to fixed-page layout or FXL, which should no longer be used except for a very small subset of "picture page" books like children's and graphic novels. There, a fixed page size will be subject to the screen proportions and size ...
That’s right: “Oh, that’s too long for our agency.” Which is a pity, really, as it’s not beyond the bounds of belief that a 400-page manuscript’s actual word count would be 112,452. Did that just make those of you that grew up on the classic 19th-century novels do a ...
But it was two inches thick, and at the time, I thought size mattered–at least when it came to impressing my classmates with my seriousness. I only got about 200 pages into the book before I had to return it, and for whatever reason, I didn’t check it out again. But I can ...
New Essays On The Crying of Lot 49, Patrick O’Donnell, editor: The last of the early Pynchon novels I haven’t yet re-read, I found this 1990 gem at Westside Books, North Denver’s trippingly abundant shop, on a too high shelf behind a short overstuffed shelf unit, next to a cha...